From: Darsh Kelaiya <[email protected]>

This patch applies the upstream fix as referenced in [2], using the commit 
shown in [1].

[1] 
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=062f2f2581b991362c046f7f2e238ffa34e6f8c7
[2] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40468

Signed-off-by: Darsh Kelaiya <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Leonid Iziumtsev <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <[email protected]>
---
 .../gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40468.patch            | 61 +++++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb      |  1 +
 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40468.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40468.patch 
b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40468.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6b767c3bead
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/CVE-2026-40468.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+From 1e0b3ebeb4a39680dcd9c8eeadd8e3bf1c7c6200 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Arnold D. Robbins" <[email protected]>
+Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 21:45:58 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Minor integer overflow fixes.
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-40468
+Upstream-Status: Backport 
[https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=062f2f2581b991362c046f7f2e238ffa34e6f8c7]
+
+(cherry picked from commit 062f2f2581b991362c046f7f2e238ffa34e6f8c7)
+Signed-off-by: Darsh Kelaiya <[email protected]>
+---
+ ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++
+ builtin.c | 2 +-
+ node.c    | 2 +-
+ 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
+index 517aba91..8cdf90f6 100644
+--- a/ChangeLog
++++ b/ChangeLog
+@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
++2026-04-04         Arnold D. Robbins     <[email protected]>
++
++      * builtin.c (do_sub): Make `sofar' be size_t to avoid
++      integer overflows.  Thanks to MichaƂ Majchrowicz
++      <[email protected]> for the report.
++      * node.c (parse_escape): Change `i' to int64_t to avoid
++      overflows. Thanks to ASan with gcc -m32.
++
+ 2026-04-03         Arnold D. Robbins     <[email protected]>
+ 
+       * io.c (do_getline_redir): Don't DEREF redir_exp too early.
+diff --git a/builtin.c b/builtin.c
+index 6305b541..d0e083da 100644
+--- a/builtin.c
++++ b/builtin.c
+@@ -1806,7 +1806,7 @@ do_sub(int nargs, unsigned int flags)
+       char *repl;
+       char *replend;
+       size_t repllen;
+-      int sofar;
++      size_t sofar;
+       int ampersands;
+       int matches = 0;
+       Regexp *rp;
+diff --git a/node.c b/node.c
+index 0e2bfb0f..f1e14dff 100644
+--- a/node.c
++++ b/node.c
+@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ parse_escape(const char **string_ptr, const char **result, 
size_t *nbytes)
+       static char buf[MB_LEN_MAX];
+       enum escape_results retval = ESCAPE_OK;
+       int c = *(*string_ptr)++;
+-      long i;
++      int64_t i;
+       int count;
+       int j;
+       const char *start;
+-- 
+2.53.0
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb 
b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb
index 59c4cb2536f..345103a7f0a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.4.0.bb
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gawk/gawk-${PV}.tar.xz \
            file://run-ptest \
            file://0001-configure.ac-re-enable-disabled-printf-features.patch \
            file://CVE-2026-40467.patch \
+           file://CVE-2026-40468.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = 
"3dd430f0cd3b4428c6c3f6afc021b9cd3c1f8c93f7a688dc268ca428a90b4ac1"
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